Last name origins & meanings:
- Hungarian (Bán): from the old Hungarian personal name
Bán.
- Hungarian, Serbian, and Croatian: from Slavic
ban or Hungarian bán ‘governor’ (from Avar
bajan ‘rich’, ‘rich man’), historically a status name for a
regional military or administrative leader (for example the governor
of Croatia in the Habsburg Empire).
- Slovenian: probably from a reduced form of the personal name Urban.
- German: variant spelling of Bann.
- Japanese: ‘comrade’. This name is found mostly in eastern Japan. Some families
pronounce the same character as Tomo.
- Chinese:
 according to legend, during the Spring and Autumn period
(722–481 bc), a noble of the state of Chu was raised and
suckled by a tiger. This tiger’s skin bore markings that resembled the
character for Ban, and his descendants adopted this character,
which may also mean ‘team’, ‘class’, ‘group’ as their surname. - Korean: variant of Pan.
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